Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning.
Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning.
Origionally she said that she just got some mushrooms from “the asian market”. I’m assuming they found out that wasn’t actually the case at which point any plausable deniability she had went out the window.
Accidental mushroom poisoning isn’t terribly rare among amateur foragers who have no idea what they’re doing. So her saying that she just bought them off of someone is somewhat believable. But if they discovered that she lied about where she got them then it goes from believable accident to almost certainly murder in an instant.
The unbelievable part from the beginning is that all the people that ate the deadly mushrooms were her ex-inlaws while AT THE SAME MEAL she served her children and herself a completely different set of food. She cooked two entirely different meals. Magically she and her children didn’t eat the deadly one.
It’s also not the first time she had accidentally poisoned somebody with mushrooms